Wildy Logo
(020) 7242 5778
enquiries@wildy.com

Book of the Month

Cover of Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Company Directors: Duties, Liabilities and Remedies

Edited by: Mark Arnold KC, Simon Mortimore KC
Price: £275.00

Lord Denning: Life, Law and Legacy



  


Welcome to Wildys

Watch


NEW EDITION Pre-order Mortgage Receivership: Law and Practice



 Stephanie Tozer, Cecily Crampin, Tricia Hemans
Practical guidance to relevant law & procedure


Offers for Newly Called Barristers & Students

Special Discounts for Newly Called & Students

Read More ...


Secondhand & Out of Print

Browse Secondhand Online

Read More...


Easter Closing

We will be closed between Friday 29th March and Monday 1st April for the Easter Bank Holidays, reopening at 8.30am on Tuesday 2nd April. Any orders received during this period will be processed with when we re-open.

Hide this message

Legal Origin Theory

Edited by: Simon Deakin, Katharina Pistor

ISBN13: 9780857939098
Published: May 2012
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £284.00



Despatched in 3 to 5 days.

In this volume, Professor Deakin and Professor Pistor include those key articles which highlight the major contributions to, but also the inherent limits of, the legal origin literature. They consider the merits of this approach in the context of three fields of inquiry: the study of comparative law; the analysis of the relation between law and markets; and the understanding of the role of legal systems in social ordering.

In their thought-provoking new introduction, the editors discuss the modifications to the original legal origins hypothesis over time and point the way for the future development of this influential, yet controversial, theory.

Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Simon Deakin and Katharina Pistor

PART I LEGAL ORIGIN: CONCEPT AND CONSEQUENCES
1. Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (2002), ‘Legal Origins’
2. Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1998), ‘Law and Finance’
3. Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2008), ‘The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins’

PART II COMMON AND CIVIL LAW IN COMPARATIVE LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP
4. Harlan F. Stone (1936), ‘The Common Law in the United States’
5. André Tunc (1976), ‘Methodology of the Civil Law in France’
6. Pierre Legrand (1996), ‘European Legal Systems are not Converging’

PART III DATA AND METHODOLOGY
7. Holger Spamann (2010), ‘The “Antidirector Rights Index” Revisited’
8. Michael Graff (2008), ‘Law and Finance: Common Law and Civil Law Countries Compared – An Empirical Critique’

PART IV LEGAL ORIGIN AND THE EVOLUTION OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
9. Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), ‘The New Comparative Economics’
10. John Armour, Simon Deakin, Priya Lele and Mathias Siems (2009), ‘How do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor, and Worker Protection’
11. Enrico C. Perotti and Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (2006), ‘The Political Economy of Corporate Control and Labor Rents’

PART V BEYOND LEGAL ORIGIN: UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
12. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson (2001), ‘The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation’
13. Daniel Berkowitz, Katharina Pistor and Jean-Francois Richard (2003), ‘Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect’
14. Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales (2003), ‘The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the Twentieth Century’
15. Mark J. Roe (2006), ‘Legal Origins, Politics, and Modern Stock Markets’

PART VI COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LEGAL SYSTEM – ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES
16. Franz von Benda-Beckmann (2002), ‘Who’s Afraid of Legal Pluralism?’
17. Ugo Mattei (1997), ‘Three Patterns of Law: Taxonomy and Change in the World’s Legal Systems’